ups and downs

I can say this day was like a roller coster.... It all started off on the wrong foot: bad sleep, woke up late. Journée de merde...
Off to start the day in the class and there I have a big disappointment looking at the results of Negosim for Period 1. A punch in the gut... Not as easy as it seems this little game. I can say this is difficult. Fortunately we have the best group.
josh is the world expert for negotiations with Malaysia: setting up plants and negotiating contracts for goods (even if sometimes we wishes we had not contracted!!)
stefano wants to understand what happened. His face turns a bit stern and he dives into the spreadsheets. After a while his smile comes back and we ready for another round at bad business
jeanine wants to keep our plants in Japan, but so far she has spoken for those poor japanese workers with too soft a voice to be heard by the us eagerly working their (non-existent) profitability and prospective markets. Women will make a better world !!!
I am wondering how can we work so hard at destroying our business and blaming ourselves for it after each session.

Anyway, it is a great experience. I think I will pay more attention in the future to accounting and strategy classes. I thought it was just common sense delivered in business suits for a s---tload of cash. What a waste. I think again now! Maybe I just had too many years in IT.

The iPod really saved the day. And I now realized that i have not opened it yet!!! Time to open the box and say a big THANK YOU to those Apple folks (I can' t remember why I thought a mp3 player would always be better then this gadget for slick New Yorkers who would never understood anything about technology ;-) A round of applause for the Dean and those in the faculty who pushed for that project. Now we will be listening to podcasts in class and we will watch movies in Negosim sessions! Better than burning share holders money...
Here are some pictures I took during the delivery session:
Simon so happy about it because he knows his commuting will be less boring every morning. Courage mon ami!!














hey Sabir, have you worked in showrooms before ? Who said bankers smile is always stern ?














Thibault is ecstatic about the paperwork !!